Legion Assaults Removed from Pathfinder and More April 5th Hotfixes

Défenseur des îles Brisées will be removed from Guide des îles Brisées, seconde partie via hotfix! The Assaults have been spawning at odd hours, including the Stormheim Assault at 3am CEST, and Blizzard determined the cyclical schedule didn't line up for their vision for Pathfinder.\r\rAssaults are still a good source of Nethershards, Artifact Power, and Transmog Weapons. Learn more in the Legion Assault Guide.\r\r\r\rLegion Assaults Removed from Pathfinder\rWe\u2019ve heard a lot of feedback and it\u2019s clear to us that the cyclical Assaults schedule, and the design of the \u201cdo all 4\u201d achievement for Pathfinder, weren\u2019t compatible. \r\rWorld Quests come and go all the time during the day too, while people are at work or asleep, and it\u2019s not a big deal because they\u2019re largely interchangeable. But that would change if we had an achievement required for Pathfinder that asked you to do a specific checklist of world quests. A lot of the stress and concern about \u201cmissing\u201d individual Assaults is tied to this achievement, so we\u2019re removing the achievement from Pathfinder via hotfix. \r\rOnce this hotfix is active, you will only need to reach Revered with the Armies of Legionfall and fully explore the Broken Shore to earn Legion flying.\r\rEarlier today, WatcherDev provided some insights on how Legion Assault scheduling works:\r\r\r\r\r\rApril 5th Hotfixes\r\r\rHotfixesAchievements\r\r The "Defender of the Broken Isles" achievement is no longer required as part of the Legion Pathfinder, Part Two meta-achievement.\rDevelopers\u2019 notes: The rotating Legion Assault schedule is designed to have them active at varying times of day over the course of a given week, to accommodate different work schedules and available free time. We're hesitant to have an Assault last for too long, because they stomp on the entire World Quest content of a given zone for the duration, potentially leaving players with nothing to do there once the Assault is complete. But this design doesn't mesh well with an important achievement that requires completion of all four zones - if anything, it causes stress over scheduling and potentially missing specific zones during the cycle. The Defender achievement was never intended to be a major obstacle on the path to flight in the Broken Isles; its inclusion was more for thematic purposes and completeness. As such, we're removing it from the meta-achievement required to unlock flying.Artifact Challenges\r\r Arcane Mages can no longer use an immunity, such as Ice Block, to remove Arcane Biology.\r Fixed a bug that was preventing some players from being ported back to the mage tower when leaving the scenario.\rAssaults\r\r While the Assault in Azsuna is active, Prince Farondis should now be visible to eligible players in Farondale.\r Vile Soulwardens in Val'sharah are no longer hesitant to engage in combat.\r Spires of Dread can no longer suffer damage from players' AoE abilities, and they no longer turn to face nearby players.\r Jarod Shadowsong will now appear for players at the base of Black Rook Hold if they leave the terrace before completing "Battle for Val'sharah".\r Drol'maz will now respawn even if his Dark Ritualists were not killed with him.\r Destruction of Fel Spreaders will now grant group credit for \u201cDefense of Emerald Bay\u201d.\r Fixed a bug where players were not receiving quest credit if they were in a raid group during the intro Legion Assault quests.\rBroken Shore\r\r The Sentinax should no longer advertise that it is finished recharging when it hasn't.\rClasses\r\r Druid\r \r Fixed a bug that caused a Druid to sometimes be disconnected when casting Typhoon.\r \rDungeons and Raids\r\r The Nighthold\r \r Skorpyron\r \r Resolved an issue in which Arcanoslash could place an Arcane Tether on a non-struck tank target.\r \r \rItems\r\r Royal Dagger Haft now absorbs the intended amount of damage. For Brewmaster Monks, this absorb amount is always counted after Stagger has reduced the damage.\rPlayer versus Player\r\r Death Knight\r \r Ice Block can now be cast by the Death Knight after being copied by Dark Simulacrum.\r \r

Commentaire de HeatherWind

Commentaire de Tristany

First time in a long time Blizzard has actually done something with the player in mind since... forever....

Commentaire de SgtShinobi

on 2017-04-05T21:15:19-05:00

That was... quick. I'm sure it would not have been an issue in the long run but it was still a poor design choice to have one of the invasions happen when basically no one could do it.

Commentaire de deathbecomezher

on 2017-04-05T21:15:50-05:00

Awwww yiss half way to revered :D TY Blizz !

Commentaire de Jimbrooks

on 2017-04-05T21:15:54-05:00

Why not just buff the time on them like for 12hrs instead of removing them entirely? Or even have them not pop up early morning when we are asleep? Jeez way to go Blizz....sigh.

Commentaire de PimpDaddy777

on 2017-04-05T21:18:09-05:00

Oh thank god. I got home today ready to do the invasion only to realize it was ending in 5 mins. I wasn't completely against the idea of waiting a few days extra than everyone to get this particular achievement (as we still have the Legionfall revered achieve to get).

Commentaire de ZeroEdgeir

on 2017-04-05T21:20:25-05:00

Why not just buff the time on them like for 12hrs instead of removing them entirely? Or even have them not pop up early morning when we are asleep? Jeez way to go Blizz....sigh.\r\rCause it is always time to sleep for some players. For a long time, when I worked overnights, I didn't wake up til 9pm, and went to bed at 2pm. If they are on a 6hr window, one at "prime time" from say 4pm-10pm, would leave some people unable to get it still.\r\rThis overall solves the issue without causing problems for a portion of the playerbase that happen to work the less-than-appreciable hours.

Commentaire de HeatherWind

on 2017-04-05T21:20:26-05:00

I don't mind working for my achievements, but with all the work that's already gone into this one (Good Sumaritan alone was a nightmare) I don't feel remotely bad about having this removed. Not only for my sake, but for my husband whose work schedule made it impossible for him to do the invasion at the times they were popping up. We started this as a team and I want him to succeed too.\r\rI am very pleasantly surprised by the swift response.

Commentaire de tmilhomens

on 2017-04-05T21:21:15-05:00

the books for AP catch up dude, don't forget them

Commentaire de Chaxton

on 2017-04-05T21:23:13-05:00

I mean, that's one way to fix a problem, but it's a stupid fix. It kills the main reason of even bothering to do those tedious quests.\r\rA better fix would have just to extend them to a 24 hour duration. They give zone-specific rep, they're just as simple and trivial as the world quests they overtake, and they're better than the trashy ones like collecting 50 of whatever item, or getting 1% per kill in cleansing the nightmare. Killing a bunch of demons in 1-3 minute WQs for Legionfall-related items in place of AP and order resources feels a little useless, but for alts who need gear, this is a great way to help them get them. There's only 6~ quests at a time it seems, so it's not like you'd get full 880+ gear in one day. It's about 2-3 pieces of Dauntless gear, which isn't bad nor overpowered. Having them active all day is perfect, and would've been a much more lucrative change. This just makes the content less interesting, and there's probably a bunch of folks who will ignore the quests since the gear isn't that good for them (Myself included, I outgear the rewards sadly). There's just no drive to do new content when the new content isn't valuable to you, you know? I already said to my friends that I was only going to do what was needed for the achievement, but now that I won't need it, it feels like there's no point (for me) to even consider them. Sure, the transmog weapons would be nice, but 12 invasions later (6 each day, so far), I've not even had one drop. \r\rI'm all for having stupid and tedious things removed (Looking at you, Galakras timer), but this just needed an extended duration.

Commentaire de uparrow

on 2017-04-05T21:25:04-05:00

When Legion Invasions on the Broken Isles was announced, I loved the idea. I really liked their implementation on Azeroth for the pre-launch event and expected them to be somewhat similar in 7.2. However when Blizzard revealed their activation pattern two hours before the first invasion was active via Twitter, I knew many players would be upset that they could miss an invasion and suddenly be at least three days behind everyone else from unlocking Legion Flying. I am surprised to see how fast this requirement for Legion Pathfinder: Part 2 was removed. Now all I have to do is grind Armies of Legionfall reputation and I can fly once more! (Only 6k rep to go!)

Commentaire de slumberbeast

on 2017-04-05T21:30:18-05:00

I missed yesterday's invasion but picked up today's. I thought it was pretty fun. Remember when you would blow $70 on a game and plug in your sega genesis, or super nintendo cartridge. If the game sucked or was unfair you had to eat it up and play anyway or go do something else. Interesting the kind of sway direct interfacing\/instant feedback with the game creators has. Not sure which is necessarily better, but it is definitely interesting.

Commentaire de dustinalex

on 2017-04-05T21:31:54-05:00

This is such a relief for myself. Yesterday I was stuck in class for extended periods of time. Today, I was at the vet for 8 hours with a sick pupper, while the invasions were going on. I'm a completionist and all, but I could not have left my super sick baby girl alone. Here's to hoping her health is going to improve over the next few days so I can get some playtime in.

Commentaire de SquirePip

on 2017-04-05T21:33:22-05:00

Sad to see Blizz caving again for something everyone would eventually have gotten, maybe just not the first day they hit revered like they wanted too. Funny how no flying was less hassle for Blizz than allowing flying. If flying causes this many problems if people can't get it the first minute they are able too maybe it shouldn't be in the game at all.

Commentaire de Menzolies

on 2017-04-05T21:34:52-05:00

I didn't mind to much that it was as infrequent as it was but being on an oceanic server based in North America the assaults were dropping at like midnight and ending at 6am and there was never anyone online to do them, I have missed the first two myself due to this.

Commentaire de tiggerbox29

on 2017-04-05T21:46:24-05:00

This is a good step but blizz how could you not foresee this was gonna happen though?\r\rAnyway i honestly dont know why blizz made us do a part 2 for the pathfinder achieve i mean anyone who has the patience to do the suramar questline deserves flying straight away and a free steak dinner from blizz!